Patrick Samway, S.J.

Education

B.A., M.A., Ph.L. Fordham University

M.Div. Jesuit School of Theology, Woodstock, Maryland

Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Professional Experience

Patrick Samway, S.J., began his teaching career at LeMoyne College and served as chairman of the English Department. He has been a Visiting Professor at Loyola University in New Orleans and Boston College, as well as a Bannan Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Santa Clara. He has twice been a Fulbright Lecturer in France (University of Nantes and the University of Paris VII). The author of many published works, Father Samway is currently editing and annotating the literary letters of Robert Giroux, the retired chairman of the editorial board of Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

[Co-edited with Ben Forkner] A New Reader of the Old South (Peachtree, 1990); Stories of the Old South (Penguin, 1989); A Modern Southern Reader (Peachtree, 1986); Stories of the Modern South (Penguin, 1978).

[Co-edited with Michel Gresset] Faulkner and Idealism: Perspectives from Paris (University Press of Mississippi, 1983) and A Gathering of Evidence: Essays on William Faulkner's "Intruder in the Dust" (Saint Joseph's University Press, 2004).